The latest on Damar Hamlin: Why I agree with religious skeptics
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
As Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin recovers from his near-death experience, our culture witnessed an outpouring of prayer in a public forum. As WSJ columnist Barton Swaim wrote, “Suddenly prayer was back on the list of things anybody could talk about or do on camera.” Our collective, instinctive response to pray when confronting a crisis we cannot solve with human resources reveals something important about us.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Monday, January 9th, 2023. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by CEO and co-founder of the Denison Forum, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:17.0 | This is how the Buffalo Bills player, Damar Hamlin, thank the world on Instagram for praying for him after he nearly died last Monday night during a game with the Cincinnati Bengals. |
| 0:28.0 | And I quote, when you put real love out there into the world, it comes back to you three times as much. |
| 0:35.4 | The love has been overwhelming, but I'm thankful for every single person |
| 0:40.1 | that prayed for me and reached out. We brung the world back together behind this. If you know me, |
| 0:46.4 | you know this only gone make me stronger. On a long road, keep praying for me. End quote. |
| 0:53.2 | His progress bolstered his team as they wore a special three patch on their uniforms yesterday. |
| 0:59.2 | In a play that seemed plucked from a movie, they returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown |
| 1:04.8 | in front of a packed house and went on to defeat the New England Patriots. |
| 1:09.3 | Hamlin's jersey was the most purchased among |
| 1:12.0 | all athletes across all sports. In my opinion, Dallas Cowboys chaplain Jonathan Evans, |
| 1:18.2 | the associate pastor of NextGen ministry at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, sounded the most |
| 1:23.9 | enduring note from Hamlin's near-death crisis. Quarterback Dak Prescott quoted |
| 1:28.8 | Evans' message to the team last week, your age, you're not old or young off of your birth |
| 1:35.2 | date, but off of your death date. Barton Swain began his Wall Street Journal editorial on |
| 1:42.2 | Damar Hamlin by referencing the question of when prayer on public |
| 1:46.5 | grounds is and isn't permissible. He noted that Americans, especially American liberals, have been |
| 1:53.5 | obsessed with this question for more than 60 years. However, he added, the idea that prayer is |
| 2:00.0 | improper at big-time sporting events was forgotten on Monday night. |
| 2:04.7 | After Hamlin collapsed on the field, Swain writes, suddenly prayer was back on the list of things anybody could talk about or do on camera. |
| 2:13.9 | Signs and social media posts called for the nation to pray for DeMar. |
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